Ira De Ment

Ira De Ment (December 21, 1931 – July 16, 2011) was a United States federal judge.

Born on December 21, 1931 in Birmingham, Alabama. In early life, De Ment attended Phillips High School in Birmingham in 1945 and graduated in 1949. After his graduation, he decided to attend Marion Military Institute as a military student and graduated in 1951. De Ment received a B.S. from the University of Alabama in 1953 and after graduating from the University of Alabama, De Ment served in the U.S. Army Infantry in Germany from 1953 to 1955, and in the Army Reserve and then the Air Force Reserve until 1989. He rose to the rank of major general and was awarded the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, the military's highest peace-time award. He previously had received the Legion of Merit. His passion to law carried him to the University of Alabama School of Law and he received a J.D. in 1958. He was a law clerk, Hon. Pelham J. Merrill, Supreme Court of Alabama from 1958 to 1959, when he briefly served as an assistant state attorney general of Alabama, and then as an assistant United States Attorney of the Middle District of Alabama from 1959 to 1961. He was in private practice in Montgomery, Alabama from 1961 to 1969, working as an assistant city attorney for the City of Montgomery, Alabama from 1965 to 1969. He was the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama from 1969 to 1977, returning to private practice in Montgomery until 1992. He was a special counsel to Alabama Governor Fob James from 1980 to 1982, to Governor George C. Wallace from 1983 to 1986, and to Governor Guy Hunt from 1987 to 1988, and in 1991. He was the Chief Judge of the Wake Island Court of Appeals from 1985 to 1992.

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